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This is the cover image for the 'Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation in the U.S. Fieldcrop Sector' report.

Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation in the U.S. Fieldcrop Sector

  • by Elizabeth Marshall, Marcel Aillery, Scott Malcolm and Ryan Williams
  • 11/25/2015
  • ERR-201

Overview

Despite increased temperatures and much regional variation in production response, U.S. irrigated fieldcrop acreage and water used for irrigation are projected to decline with long-term climate change. Driving the decline in water use are changes in crop growth due to temperature stress, changes in growing-season precipitation, and shifts in surface-water supply availability.

See related Amber Waves article: Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation

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